Jeff Blashill on Improvement Areas | Chicago Blackhawks

overall thoughts on the game? Um, you know, obviously they played better than us. I just thought, uh, you know, a lot of stuff. We’ve threw a lot of stuff at our guys here this week. Um, combination of a lot of hard work, so I didn’t think we quite had our legs, but also just, you know, everything’s kind of new. Systems are new. Um, and we we played like we were thinking, and when you think a lot, you kind of play slow. And so, they beat us to, you know, pretty pretty much every loose puck, every uh out chance to outnumber us, they they kind of won that. And again for me and then when you do that you just end up defending defending defending and then you change. And so I just thought in the end uh you know it it didn’t surprise me. Um I I I knew our I knew we were going to be uh our legs were going to be tired and uh um you know that we you know certainly our systems aren’t natural yet. But um I’m okay with that. That’s that’s why we’re putting the work in. Arvid made 40 saves tonight. Thoughts on uh you know his first action under you? Not just 40 saves but but some really really good saves. I thought he played excellent, you know, and certainly the game could have got definitely one-sided if it wasn’t for that. So, um, great job for him. Uh, you know, he’s looked solid in camp. All our goalies have looked really good in camp, so that’s a real positive. You know, Connor got the power play goal. Maybe just your thoughts on the power play tonight. Um, well, you know, obviously it was it was a good play getting it over to him and and you know, he can shoot it for sure. But I thought I thought Connor played well. I thought Connor deserved uh in the first period and then and then on that power play and then we just didn’t have the puck enough for him to showcase his stuff. But he looks uh he looks like he’s in a good spot. I thought he did have legs early. So uh you know, credit to him and the work that he put in this summer. And then thoughts on Wyatt’s goal jumping up in the rush and Aiden finding him uh coming in as a trailer. Yeah. No, it was good. Uh you know, I think that was probably one of the few times in the game where we won a battle and then I thought Ari did a good job skating the puck up the ice. We had Bandit. Uh great talk uh by W. He’s one of the guys that talks a lot out there. So and then we then we had a screen. So all that that’ll be a clip we’ll show is a as a real positive.

Head Coach Jeff Blashill recaps the first preseason game against the Detroit Red Wings following a 3-2 loss

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